Day Thirty-two - Jul 10, 2000
Salisbury, MA to Carmel, NY
Daily Didactic
The day began damp in Salisbury Massachusetts, just across the New Hampshire border. It was pouring rain when we pulled in last night and, with the humidity in these parts, things do not dry out. We bathed, ran a load in the campground laundromat dryer (a popular idea), and headed inland. The initial part of our drive took us directly through the decaying urban centers of Lawrence and Lowell, where the haphazard marking of the state highway 110 required us to make many confusing U-turns. This trend, coupled with the most ridiculous traffic control concept we have ever been subjected to over and over, the "rotary", lead to a long couple of hours. We eventually broke free of this around Gardener and enjoyed a more rural drive through Greenfield, on to Pittsfield and down through the Berkshire "mountains". Brian had a marginally successful time locating some points of interest from his earlier days in the area. Most notably (to him, not necessarily his wife) was the church from the movie "Alice's Restaurant", now the Guthrie Center. We dropped out of Massachusetts, through the northwest corner of Connecticut and on into New York. We found the rocky Clarence Fahnestock State Park, outside of Carmel, a made it home for the evening.
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